Work in the region commenced on 26 April 1917 when Lieutenant Kawl Khuma, the first Mizo officer commissioned in India, returned to start the Army work. He was then joined by a group of earnest believers who shared his vision of an ‘Army like a church, very much in line with The Salvation Army’.

India Eastern became a separate command on 1 June 1991 and became a territory in 1993.

States included in the territory: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Maghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, West Bengal (part) and the Kingdom of Bhutan